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UNITED, STATES PATnNi-f' OFFICE.

ANSON SEARLS, or NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

WHIP-SOCKET FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 287,874, dated November 6, 1883;

Application filed January 2, 1883. (No model.)

ing in the city of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New J ersey,have invented cer= tain new and useful Improvements in Whip- Socket Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part thereof, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of the upper portion of a whip-socket with a fastener, containing myinventiomattached to it. Fig. 2 is asimilar view on the oppositeside of the socket and fastener. Fig. 3 is a view of a cross-section or the socket and the under face of the said fastener, the screw .int ended to hold the offset end of the band-fastener being removed and said end being detached; and Fig. 4 is a similar view of the socket and fastener, (the latter partly in section,) showing the said screw and offset in position.

My invention relates to the fasteners by which whip-holders are secured to vehicles; and it consists in the peculiar deviceshereinafter described, whereby such fasteners are secured to the sockets.

A is the body of a common tubular Whipsocket, made of either metal or wood, as preferred.

B and G are the jaws of the fastener, fitted to grasp the dash-rail of the vehicle.

Formed on the jaw B, and extending laterally therefrom, is a buckle-frame, b, as seen plainly in Fig. 2, which buckle-frameprojects from the edge of B near its'base, and is curved to fit ontothe curved surface of the body of the socket, and extends ashort distance around the same. It is made broad as shown in Fig.

' 2, and near its outer end is a transverse slotted opening, b, to permit the passage through it of the end of a sheet-metalband, d. The inner concave face of bis recessed, and from the bottom of the recess is a projecting spur, e,

Fig. 4,1which passes through a hole near the end of the said metal band, as seen in Fig. 4. The end of said band being passed through the opening I) from the outside inward, and passed over said spur e,so that the same shall engage with said hole in the end of the band,

Fig. 3, forming an offset, as shown at f, Fig.

3,through which is a hole to receive a screw, f.

At the inner end of the frame I; is a lug, g,

projecting outwardly, andprovided with a screw-hole to attach the jaw B to the socket. The band d,-having one end secured to the frame 6, as before described, is passed around the socket, and the opposite-end is made fast to the lug g by the screw f as seen plainly in Fig. 4. By screwing up this bolt f 2 the band and jaw are tightened upon the socket.

The jaw O is adjustably attachedto the jaw B by a screw-bolt, h, as seen plainly in Fig. 3. w a

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is p The described devices for securing fasteners to whip-sockets, consisting of the jaw ,B, the buckle-frame I), provided with the opening I), and the spur e and the lug g, the band 01, being provided at one end with a holeto engage with the said spur e, and at the opposite end with an offset, f, providedwithahole through which passes the screw-bolt f into a screwhole in the lug all constructed and combined as and for. the purpose described.

ANSON SEARLS. 

